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  • How old banks are learning from a new breed of tech start-ups

    I gave this (i.e. the Fintech scene) special coverage in a separate section of my trend report. Banks around the world are realising that in the rapidly developing world of smartphones and apps they are at risk of falling behind in the innovation race. Fresh-faced financial technology start-ups (fintechs) are coming up with new mobile-first…

  • Round up of latest #innerventures trends

    In this post I’m changing the format slightly by tagging the title with a different hashtag (which was partly for Twitter but had other purposes too). Instead of intrapreneurtrends that I used before, its now the new name of this site, its URL, the new hashtag I’m tracking on Twitter (see sidebar) and my new…

  • World’s biggest startup? Samsung to reform corporate culture

    SEOUL (By Se Young Lee, Reuters) — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the world’s biggest maker of smartphones and memory chips, announced on Thursday that it plans to adopt a corporate culture akin to a startup, seeking to become more nimble as growth slows. More here.  #research

  • Jet Blue joins the corporates in the VC game

    I just found an announcement that JetBlue has formed an in-house venture capital program that will invest in startups “at the intersection of technology, travel and hospitality.” More here: http://www.jetblueventures.com/ #research

  • What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

    From an article on the Harvard Business Rreview, the authors carried out a systematic analysis of the 146 unicorns identified by The Wall Street Journal. Thanks to this analysis, we identified four features that are common to pretty much all the unicorns and which we believe helps explain why they have been so successful. Unicorns…

  • Round up of latest #intrapreneur trends

    How to partner with a larger company when you’re a startup Why investors love spin-off startups The struggle with adapting the lean startup to the corporate environment Big Companies Must Embrace Intrapreneurship To Survive Big Companies Should Collaborate with Startups Driving a culture of innovation with entrepreneurial thinking now being pushed at University How Large…

  • Corporate Innovation Trends – Report from CB Insights

    The blurb for the report says it all: The life of an S&P 500 company is rapidly declining and increasingly, the risks to these companies comes from an armada of startups and not a giant incumbent competitor. We dig into how corporations can use startups to innovate faster and how to make the important build,…

  • More #intrapreneur trends being led by financial services

    From this article on the Financial Times (you may find its behind a paywall): Axa chief excited by technological change The chief executive of Europe’s second-biggest insurer by market capitalisation says that the industry is dealing with technological change unevenly. “That is great news,” he adds, explaining that it allows more nimble operators to win…

  • Round up of latest #intrapreneur trends

    Some very interesting articles over the last few weeks – here they are: MasterCard Announces Start Path Global Program – an accelerator to support Fintech startups. Like this statement on their site – very intrapreneurial: “Like a startup, we are always looking for ways to evolve. That’s why we have created a new partnership model…

  • Academy for Corporate Entrepreneurship – awesome programs for the #intrapreneur

    Woah, just came across this site today with probably the most comprehensive and impressive Intrapreneurship program I’ve seen so far – definitely one for the #research files. Here it is: http://www.afce.co/

  • How to think like a Startup

    Definitely one for Intrapraneurs

  • Intrapreneurs matrix – a lens for breaking down activities

    After an awesome discussion with some friends on chapter 2 of the trend report which is intended to do a slightly deeper dive into intrapreneurial activity than the intro, we agreed it would be useful to break down activities a little to provide greater meaning and context we could come back to in later chapters.…

  • Before you build an innovation lab, answer these 6 questions

    From VentureBeat where the article was posted, these pertinent points for why I will be incorporating some of the thinking here in the trend report: Today, large companies are creating innovation outposts in innovation clusters like Silicon Valley in order to tap into the clusters’ innovation ecosystems. These corporate innovation outposts monitor Silicon Valley for…

  • Hackathons as a key intrapreneurial activity and route to innovation

    In my time at Yammer first then Microsoft, I worked with customers to devise a program for running innovation hackathons. It considers more than just the 24 hour period typical for hackathons. The “pre” and “post” of hackathons is as important. Activity should start long before the 24 hour period and carry on long after.…